I wanted to take some cool shots of my friends skating and sliding downhill, but add something different and give a different feel to them. So I looked at what do I feel confident with in terms of post processing and applying a to different environment? Portraits, I shoot people, so what about taking the style of portrait editing and applying that to downhill skating? Sweet.
The main goal I try to achieve when I edit portraits is to make the eyes connect, to have a gesture that symbolises something, to have a pose that conveys a message. This proved to be quite a challenge in this scenario as most of the time with skating you aren't really able to shout directions to a dude gassing it down a hill about to initiate a slide at 60kmh. Right, so what next. Composition has a fair bit to play here. Once I've picked which shots are for my final edit, I work on making the rider "pop" out or contrast with the background. This sort of replicates the connection that would have been if there was a clear contact with the eyes. That is the time consuming part. The end result is something that I am particularly happy with and stoked that I tried something different.
Mad props go out to Sam Merg....Mergatroid? Mega-Astroid? Mergertoid? That guy. (Someone please give me Sam's last name!) He was launching into his slides faster and later than anyone else on the days we shot together. I will post up some more shots of him soon where you can see what I mean. Really cool to see that "balls to the wall" mentality.
Here are the shots. Let me know what you guys think, pulled it off? epic fail? I wanna know. Enjoy. N.
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| Sam, digging rail and skiing a solid 10meters. |
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| Herbert, power stanced stand up slide. |
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| One of the Hout bay groms blitzing Tarragona. |
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